Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 2, 1918, Page 5

May Benefit by the Rémedy Mrs. Lit- tle Recommends for Nervousness of strength so it was around and do my work. After medicines had failed to help me Vinol restored my health and h and 1 heartily recommend any one suffering from a nerv- ous, run-down condition."—Mrs. R. M. Little. 3 There is no secret about Vol It owes its success to beef and cod liv- er peptones, iron and manganese pep- tonates and glycerophosphates, the oldest and most famous body building tonics. We strongly recommend - it. Broadway Pharmacy, G. G. Engler, Prop., Nerwich. Vinol is _sold in Willimantic by the Wilson Drug Co.; in Danielson by the A. W. Williams Pharmacy, and in Putnam by J. F. Donahue. NOTICE Bullding Laborers International Pro- tective Union of America, Locals No. 2 and ls, have elected James D. Chinigo, their delegate to the Central Labor Un- ion, and hereby mnotify all contractors to receive him on unfon jobs Jo! H ALDI, Secretary. Norwich, Cofin.. Aug. 30, 1918. WHEN YOUR BOY Goes to Camp he Should have a WRIST WATCH Our Agsortment is Complete PRICES $4.50 to $3500 . OTHER SUGGESTIONS Comfort Kits, Razors, Trench Mirrors, Devetion Kits, Fountain Pens, Locket Rings. i The Plant-Cadden Co. Jewelers Established 1872 NORWICH, CONN. Office Closed Until September 4th OUT OF TOWN DR. A. J. SENAY ALICE BLDG. MAIN STREET FRISWELL'S The Jeweler + MILITARY WRIST WATCHES and COMFORT KITS For the Soldiers and Sailors The Wm. Friswell Co. 25 Franklin Street. AMERICAN HOUSE First-class Garage Service Connected MORRISSEY, Prop. Shetucket Street D. Phone OBITUARY, Miss Gertrude Pratt. Miss Gertrude Pratt, who was spend- ing the summer at North Zlaven. Me., at the home of Mrs. Bela Lyon Pratt, the widow of her brother, the noted scylptor, died suddenly on August 29 after a short {liness. The funeral took place on Sunday at Salem in this state and burial was in the Whittle- zcvy private cemetery at Mass Wood len. Miss Pratt was the daughter of the late George Pratt and was born Dec. 11, 1864, at the Pratt residence, Rock Lawn, in Norwich, and was a grad- uate of the Norwich Frée Academy. The gréater part of her life has been devoted to the care of her mother, Mrs. Sarah Victoria Pratt, with whom she Nved at Kansas City. Miss Pratt iy survived by a brother, Oramel Whittlesey Pratt, a prominent lawyer in Kansas City and one sister, Mrs. Alice Pratt Bodman of Madison, Wis. The father of the deceased was one of the leading lawyers of this county and his office was in the old Breed hall building. LIEUT. SELDEN WAS IN ARIRPLANE CRASH Lieut. J. K. Selden, nephew of Rev. Joseph H. Selden of Broadway, is vis- ;'53 here with his parents. Lieut. Seten is a member of the aviation service, being on a leave of absence to reeover from an airplane crash in which he received a broken leg and arm and other injuries. INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY Mrs. Charles S, Holbrook has re- turned from Fishers lIsland. Miss Dorothy Jones has returned from a visit with friends at Asbury Park, N. J. Miss Bertha Squire of Boston has left town after a visit with her sister, Miss Lottie S, Squire. Mr. and Mrs. W. Tyler Oleott are at their home on Church street, after spending a month at Pleasant View. Mr. and Mrs, Walter E. Gilbert and family who have been registered at the Wigwam, Pleasant View, for sev- eral weeks, will return home today. Miss Marion Briges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius g:-m of Broadway, has returned after passing the sum- mer at Camp Cowhasset, North.Fal- mouth, Mass. Miss Marjorie Roath, Miss Kather- ine Hempstead, Miss Josephine Hol- brook and Miss Darothy Lester, who have spent the summer at Camp Big Pine, at Fairlee Lake, Vt, have re- turned to town. AMiss Loretta P. Higgins, who has been connected with the editorial de- partment of the Hartford Courant during the summer, is spending this month at her home on Broadway be- fore returning to Connectizut College. Mies Mary Lester,” with several other Wellesley undergraduates, is do- ing fresh-air work at Treasure Island, where hundreds of mothers and chil- dren from the New York tenem.ntuJ Norwich, Monday, Sept, 2, 1918. ——— VARIOUS MATTERS Light vehidle lamps at 7.52 this ev- ening. The Otis library is closed today, a legal holiday. A motorless Sunday decreased bus- iness for the surgeons. The John F. Byrne Amusement com- pany of Norwich has dissolved. Yesterday ended the vacation season for most of the churches and choirs. The best moonlight nights in Sep- tember will be from the 19th to the 23rd. Flocks of swallows are , wheeling about, in early preparation for South- ward migration. The jittle blues and mackerel have made their appearance at Fenwick and Saybrook Point. At Niantic, Mrs. E, A. Padgett of Putnam has taken the Pan-American cottage for the month. Crescent Beach is among the lo- Thomas Croker of Groton 18 visiting relatives on the Fast Side. i James Healy of Hartford, former- ly of this city, is spending a few days in town. Mr. and Mrs. Byron A. Mathieu have returned from a two weeks' vacation in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs, Edward R. Ramage of New Britain are the guest of lo- cal relatives. Miss Sarah Hemmings, of Hartford, formerly of Norwich, is the guest of friends in town. Al James Kelly of Bridgeport, formerly of this city. is the guest of friends here over Labor Day. ‘Thomas MecGrory of Newnport spending a short furlough at his home on Washington street. Normarn Heneault of Hobart avenué has returned hom after spending the summer at Groton Long Paint. Prof. George Rager of New Haven, formerly of Norwich, is at his cottage at Pine Grove, Nianmtic, this menth. Machinist's Mate James Burke, who is stationed at Newport, is at his home on Roath stréet for over Labor Day. Miss Lina Grierson and Miss Agnes Grierson of Bridgeport are visiting calities where the scarcity of help has|Miss May F. Ritchie of Broad strest. been keenly felt this season. |_ Hon. H. H, Palmer and family, of In spite of the campaign of food ' Preston, were recent guests of Mrs. conservation, many apples are going to} Caleb T. Bishop, of South Plainfield. waste under trees on suburban farms.| The Misses Fennessey and Mary Neutie A. Reed of New London has|Canty of Church street have returned bought from F, S. Newcomb a build- | after spending a few days in Spring- ing lot on Bentley avenue, Ocean|field. . beach. % Mrs. Bdward Woster of Pearl River The weather man_ has favored the|on th }udson. Is the guest of Mr. and shore yesorts, as there has been but|Mrs. George O. Hathaway of Ward one unpleasant 1918 season. Sunday during the|street. Thomas McNamara, formerly of this Old Lyme stands tenth in the state|city, now located in Portland. Me, is in the sales of War Savings stamps|spending Labor Day with frierds in with $9.28 per capita, and for July led | this city. ‘ the county in sales. Herbert Willey of New Haven is As Observation Days for Septem-|spending Labor Day with his parents, ber, Friday and Saturday a satisfactory proportion of fair and wet weather. Eastern Connecticut indicated | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Willey of Asy- both | lum street. Mrs. John Jordan and daughter, Mrs. Elks have | Theodore Robinson, are spending 4 been notified regarding the institution | week at Bueno Vista cottage at Groten of Rockville lodge, No. 1,359, of a|Long Point. change of date from. Septernber 18 to September 16. Mr. and Mrs, Lea Bickford of Stet- son street left Sunday morning to Drivers of motor vehicles appreci-|spend their vacation with relatives in ate the recent repairs and improve-|Brandon, Vt. ments to the roadbed on the hill below Lieutenant Arthur D. Marsh,'M. R. the Richmond Radiator plant, on West| C, Hampton's physician, has received Thames street. his call and will leave at once for On certain of the long route cars of | Battle Creek, Mich. the Shore Line Electric Railway com- pany out of Norwich, passengers are|{he aviation service and is Richard L, Tarrant who enlisted in at a given printed receipts for war tax|ground sehool at Princeton, is at his collected in addition:to regular fares. The Haughton's Cove summer resi- dence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hub- bard, of Norwich, has been marked by an ornamental name plate, “Lasata,” a title of Spanish derivation signify- ing rest or ease. ANl the houses in future to be built at Groton Long Point will be for win- ter use also. In this way week end parties can be made more comfort- able and, if desired, the houses can be leased during the winter months. Friends of Clyde C. Tngram . gave him a surprise party at his home in Waterford, Thursday evening and and presented him a. goid wAist wateh, a fountain pen and other gifts. Mr. Ingram will leave soon for Camp Up- ton. To accommedate the extra travel incident to the Labor Day holidays which it is expected by railroad of- ficials will be larger than usual this year owing to the stopping of Sunday automobiling, extra coaches will be run on all trains today. Connecticut farmers, who this year grew about 10,000 acres of rye and 3500 acres of wheat — a record for this state — are asked as a military necessity to increase their next rve acreage to 16000 and their wheat acreage to at least 4,000. Cottagers and year-round residents at Best View criticise the leniency which permits girls in bathing suits o linzer ahout the new launch pier at Richards grove. where their spoon- ing with the sailors is so frequent and 80 public as to be in bad taste. , The September issue of The Con- necticut Citizen announces that John A. Akerland of Hartford will give ad- dresses on temperance ‘e the Swedish language. It also points out that but seven Sundays will pass before the state will vote on prohibition. Atftendants at St. John’s church, Montville, w3’ miss the Camp Dewey cadets) severa] scores of these bright young Cathclic boys:from New York and the South having been regularly at the masses at 8 and 10 o'clock ev- ery Sunday, during the summer. Even with the hardship of wheat substitutes the cooks of Bozrah can produce prize cake, as wae demon- strated by a generous and varied sup- ply sent The Bulletin force, following the missionary meeting held at Mrs, Groce K. Peckham's, in Franklin. Cattle Commissioner Whittlesey has been notified of the killing by dogs a herd of forty-four sheep belonging to Joseph Jeffery. Six were injured. The town will compensate the owner and the state will reimbuyse the town. From the pulpit of St. church Sunday the women of the congregation. who have he so faith- ful in Red Cross work, were asked to make a special effort to do home sew- ing on sarments for French and Bel- £ian refugees, now so urgently need- ed. Among the 160 priests in retreat at Keyser Island, South Norwalk, last week were Rev. Fathers Peter J. Cuny, C. W. Brennan and W. H. Ken- nedy, Norwich J. F. X. Quinn, Mont- ville. M. P. Hart, Mystic, Alexander Wollschlager. New London, and W. A. Fitzgerald, Groton. United States District = Attorney Spellacy. democratic nominee for gov- ernor of Connecticut, has heen grant- ed’'a leave of absence dating from August 15 to‘November 5 to permit him to participate in his campaien. He will supervise the work in his office, but will receive no pay. Suffragists will hold an open air meeting Tuesday evening near the Sol diers and Saflors’ ‘monument in New home here for a few days. Miss Louisé Benn and Miss Natalie Benn who were visiting their aunt, Mrs. Joabh Rogers, at Gales Ferry, for the past month, have returned to Hartford. Rev. Percy M. Barnes of Walpole, Mass.,, former rector of Grace Epis- copal church, Yantic, who has been at the shore at Saybrook, ha§ left for his home. G. Chester Bell, formerly manager of the Norwich Grain company is now in the service at Camp Merritt, N, J., and is spending a short furlough with friends here. Mr. and Mrs, Arthur E. Lamb, of New Haven, and A. B. Hollister and Miss Ruth E. Carpentér, of Hartford, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Carpenter of Fort Point. The Hartford Post states that Mr. and Mrs, Arthur L. Story of Wash- ington street have as thelr guest, their sen, Arthur E. Story, cashier of the Merchants National - Bank, Norwich. Dr. and Mrs. William M. Geod and sons, Richard St, John and Murray, motored from Waterbury and are spending the holiday with Dr. Good's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Good, of Everett street, Norwich, Sylvester Stevens is spending a few days with his parents in Danbury be- fore returning to Harvard uhiversity, where he is a student. He has been on the staff of instructors at the Na- val Cadet school in New London. CATTLE AND HORSES ARRIVE FOR THE FAIR Sunday was a busy day at the fair grounds, as many of the exhibitors and those having stands on the grounds were putting up booths and arranging their exhibits. No one was allowed on the grounds except thgse who. had business there. Seyeral fiorses from Readville, Mass., arrived by auto frack during the af- ternoon and other steppers were given workouts on the track which has been put in first class. condition by C. B. Chapman. A new ruling that has been made by the association is that no teams will be allowed to park within the track, as this space is reserved for automobiles. The teams must park on the cast mide of the track. The barn which was recently dam- aged by fire hae been repaired and will be ready for use today, the opening day. Many herds of cattle arrived on Palmer, E. M, O'Brien’s herd of Ayr- shires, J. D. Avery’s herd of Ayrsmrn‘ ‘Wwhich came by trolley express, a herd of Jerseys from Rockclyffe farms, G. Patrick's | F.. Morgan's Devons and J. M. La- throp’s herd of Jerseys. The merry-go-round was set up, as was many of the midway shows. The ponies for the pony riding for children arrived Sunday. Among ti®: Parge ex- hibitors this year are tig New Lon- don Ship and Engine company, which have entered poultry, pheasants, vege- tables and other things; M. Thurman Main of Clark’s Falls, who has a large exhibit of farm produce; Mersick & Co. of New Haven, who show farm implements and also several types of tractors will be shown and demon- strated. The state council of defense has a large exhibit which shows many of their wartime getivities. Wednesday has been designated as Red Cross day, and the New London Ship and Engine company’s band will play during the afternoon. . James C. Dunn, a,returned veteran 1 of the great war, one of the first to go | to France with the Canadians, give a short talk each afternoon. “Scotty” Dunn has been over the top several times and at the battle of London, to urge the immediate pass-|Vimy Ridge was so severely wounded age of the Susan B. Anthony amend- ment. Miss Clara Louise Rowe, who is arranging the meeting is the guest of Mrs. George S. Palmer, formerly of Norwich. In cases where conductors on rafl-j road trains are in doubt as to the age of a child for whom a half-fare is paid, a certificate, certifying to the age of the child, ts to be filled out by the parent or guardian, accord- ing to a notice issued by the United States railroad administration to all conductors. A number of holders of taxable ‘bonds are to begin this week to ar- range for payment of taxes on these at the office of the state treasurer. where the rate is 4 mills, instead: of the rate voted by the different towns, usually ranging from 10 to 16 mills. The state remits to treasurers of towns later. % The federal food board announced a new get of wheat regulations Wed- nesday. The fifty-fifty substitute rule no® gives way to a less drastic reg- ulation calling for only 20 per cent. of substitutes with 80 per cent. of wheat flour, and allowing the main. tenance of a 60-day supply of flour are taken for a little vacation and|instead of a 30-day supply. Wheat- the congested city|less days less meals are dis- that he was forced to give up the life in the trenches. Mr. Dv:fm was at one time a resident of Greeneville. RED TAG CLASS BOOSTS POLICE RECORDS Those little red tags that are at- tached by police to automobiles found violating the motor vehicle law play- ed a considerable part in sending the record of arrests in August in Nor- wich up to the high mark of 4205, There were 39 of such cases entered on the book at police headquarters, while lintoxicaticn made the high mark of 91, and breach of the peace contributed 44. The “following were the causes- of arrested: intoxication 91, breach of the peacé 44, violations of motor ve- hicle law 39, trespass 13, theft 4, bur- glary 3, giving liquor to sailors 3, re- sisting officer 3, operating moter ve- hicle while under the influence of li- quor 2, and the following one each, parole violator, vagrancy, embezzie- ment, violation vehicle law, injury to private property, sleeping in barn, ctommon drunkard, ‘insane, eseaped from jail, non-support, incorrigible. .Mohagan park is a pleasing revela- tion to visitors, and Ox Point caps the climaz SR Ere Scores of Nerwich families reverted to the comfort of their piazzas on | Sunday instead of the usual spin over miles of this and surrounding states, er trips to the seashore, while down in their garages their faithful motors stood, cold and neglected, waiting far their masters to tugn them over. Hundreds of pedestrians accustomed te stop. look and listen before step-~ ping into the street found the cau- tion needless for the town had re- lapsed .into the Sunday quiet that has not vet quite faddd entirely from the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Norwich was doing its bit in gaso- lene conservation on the “zasless Sun. day" ordained by the fuel commissoin for all the country east of the Mis- sissippi river. As the fuel administration figured| that about two gallens per car could be counted upon as the savings for the day, the patriotic Norwich motor- ists who remained at home can take the satisfaction of feeling that they gallons, for the last tax list of the town gave 2n approximate registration here of 1,000 autos and motorcycles. Incidentally they have done their part towards depriving the oil magnates of the Sunday profit on 23,000,000 gal-.| lons of gasoline at 25 or 30 cents per gallon, which is the estimatea total for Sunday usage in the territory ag- fected by the order. And mest impor- tant of all they have done what they could towards winning the war, which after all is the consideration most worth while. Yet many local cars were seen out on Sunday. While all of them proba- bly had an alibi that soothed their conscience the appearances were against them in a number of cases. Several anto-truck loads filled with young men out for a goad n ew on by - ley the writer took the numbers of forty cars on the road but is glad to ‘were owned by people, the re- mainder b out of town cars. There were ma nd, Massachu- traffic at the corner of Main street and Broadway remarked upcn the small of traffic durs ing the day and r stated that nearly every other machine was of Rhode Island registyy. % Those that did ride en Sunday were constantly reminded that it was gas- oline day by the small boys who set up the cry of “Slacker” whenever they saw an automobile. In some eases their opinien may have beem justified but at the same time there were many people whose use of the automobile] contributed a saving of about 2,000 |Was a necessity. In one case they found eut their mistake when the oc- cupants of a large machine put on their uniform caps to show that they balonged to a well known organiza ;vhose work they were on the way to 0. The auta-busses plying between Nor- wich and New London tcbk a day off which threw a large amount of traffic to the trolley company and q them to runm many extras. The public service cars at Montville were all de- ing business but their cause was & just qne as many peaple living in Pal- mertown and other places distant from the ear line use them daily. On the whale Norwich's compliance with the government request is very creditable and if people will continue of peopleito conserve on gasoline many thous- were observed on their way to various |ands-of gallons will be saved right here beaches several public service cars, in the city. MUST KEEP BRITISH REGISTRANTS SEPARATE Major John Buckley, state director of the draft, notified all local boards| on Friday that they are requireq to exemine the registration cards of all persons who registered Aug. 24 or since in pursuance of President Wil- son's proclamation of. Aug. 13 and place in a separate file the cards of ail British subjects, in¢luding Canadians, whether declarants or nongleclarants. Until further notice such cards must be made available for inspection by properly accredited representatives of the British and Canadian recruiting mission. In order to comply with the terms of the conventions this country has ratifieq with Great Pritain and Canada the involuntary induction of every such person must be suspended until and including Sept. 23, 1818. The statement of a registrant on his regis- tration card that he is a subject of Great Britain or a Canadian shall be sufficient evidence of his nationality unless the local board is satisfied that such statement is untrue. Major Buckley also directed the at- tention of local boards to those para- graphs of the selective service regu- lations which direct the stay'of in- voluntary induction of any registrant who is a subject of a neutral in the' present war, and who hag declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States. LABOR DAY PARADE 2 NEW LONDON FEATURE Labor Day will be celebrated on a big scale at New London. The Connecticut Federation of La- bor will hold its convention there and a mammoth parade will be a feafure of the day's observance. ‘William J. Buckley, chairman for the Federation of Labor in this dis- triet, has ar-anged plans for the con- vention. The parade will be held in the morning and_ exercises um!e‘kvéhe auspices of the Y. M. C, A. and War Community Service will be held at Riverside park during the safter- noon. : Every band in the, eastern part of Cornecticut has been engaged, also several bands in_ government service. The Niseco and Konomoc bands will give concerts for tw ohours. The big parade will start at 10.30 a. m>Mayor Ernest E. Rogers and the members of the court of common council will review the parade from a stand in fgnt of the municipal build- ing. It is expected that between 35,000 and 6,000 will be in iine. LIBERTY LOAN POSTERS ARE SOON TO APPEAR In about a week, fifty-eight large twenty-four sheet “stand” posters wiil appear in Hartford as the harbingers of the Fourth Liberty loan campaign, according to Majof Frank G. Macom- ber, state director of publicity for the loan. These posters are ready and Major Macomber has assigned the distribu- tion for seventeen centers in this state and for New Rochelle, N. Y., Spring- . | field, Mass., and Westerly, R. L, which are to be supplied from this state. The allotment of posterg for the cities in this state is as follows: Bridgeport, 97; Hartford, fifty-eight; Middletown, fourteen; New Haven, 108: Putnam, eight; Southington, four; Torrington, eight; Waterbury, fotty-ome: Win- sted, six; Danielson, eight; Meriden, sixteen; New Britain. thirty: New London, thirty-two; Rockville, six; Stafford Springs, four; Wallingford, six; Willimantie, six. FAREWELL BANQUET FOR WESTERLY PATRIOT A farewell banquet was tendered to Abraham Schuman of Westeriy, R. I, recently of the Waterbury American staff, at the home of his uncle, W. Selikowitch, in New London, Wednes- day evening, the eve of his depar- ture for Canada to join the Jewish legion under British command for ser- vice in Palestine. The guests were prominent members of the New Lon- don camp of Sons of Zion, and sev- eral, in their after-dinner remarks, praised Mr. Schuman's patriotism in Will | the highest terms. A subscription was taken for the purchase of five trees for the Herzi forest in Palestine. SPEEDED HIS AUTO THROUGH THE SQUARE Frank Allen. who is emploved by a ‘West Side bottling works, was arrest- ed in Ferry street on Sunday morning by Policeman Charles Smith on & charge of reckless driving after Allen had driven his automobile through Franklin square at a high rate of speed just «s a good sized crowd was gathered there waiting for the trolleys. Allen, it is ¢laimed, made the people in his way scatter right and left as he dashed through the square and turned into Ferry street. S Electrical Sign Lit Sunday Night. The request of the fuel administra« tion for all those having large elec- trical signs over the places of busi- ness to - refrain from using them ex- cept on Saturday night was not ob- served by one restaurant keeper on Main street as he had his sign lighted all during Sunday evening. 4 North Grosvenordale Postmastershi; In the list of Connecticut postmas- ters this week sent to the senate by the president for confirmation was Camilda A. Bonin to be postmaster at Nronh (;z;:axn%rqa.le, Conn., in place Camil oisard; name change By marriage | e ChaEed FOODSTUFFS HIGHER 2 MEANS LESS USEI Miss Charlotte Molyneux Holloway, industrial investigator for the state bureau of labor recently stated that the price of foodstuffs has risen from 50 to 56 per cent. and the decrease in its copsumption is around 35 per- cent, since 1814 in this state. The details of the increase in price show that certain qualitles of meat now cost more than double what they did in 1914 and the increase for others has been 130 per cent. Butter is more than 55 per cent. higher and the in- creased price plus the deereased.nu- tritive value makes-eggs about 100 per cent. more costly to the consumer, Milk has gene from eight cepts a quart in 1916 to sixteen cents now. Miss Holloway states, and condensed milk has also increased comsiderahly. The decrease in consumption is seen most clearly in meat. butter, cheese. eggs, potatoes and milk. v “You want me to give you an idea about the high cost of living, do you? said Miss Holloway in discussing the situation in the state of Connecticut. “A comparison between the food price of 1914-16 and 1918 is not wholly just unless we com#rehend that the 1918 por cent. includes noto nly actual outlay but about 33 per cent. retrenchment. I am holding to the price of food bncause I believe that while civilized man can do without learning and books he cannot exist without food. Clothing and heat are factors which are not vitally pressing for some months to ‘come. “Milk is the most essential food to the part of our population which we should protect and develop. Milk has gone from eight cents a quart in 1916 to sixteen cents for plain ordinary milk without any blue ribbons on its bottle, and consequently the people are using less. When a commodity increases in price, the consumer protects himself by using less without considering that he may be really lowering his own vitality. “The use of skim milk has been rec- ommended. While I have read some interesting instructions regarding its substitution for the richer lacteal, I know nothing about its value. It geems to me that only a physician could tell what systems could assimilate and what would reject it. “There should be something done to lower the price and allow milk to be used in its former abundance. It iz the cheapest and most widely used food value for children. I do not think the farmet should bear the brunt of its high price. He should receive some coneession which would aid in lowering its price. and there should be some arrangement so that it could be marketed Without increasing its price. I bought a quart of milk in a city in July for sixteen cents. Not fifteen miles from there I bought another, rich with cream, for eisht. There .are many communities where this can be paral- leled. There are some where quanti- ties of milk go to waste because of lack of transportation facilities. There are many families who go out in ma- chines and bring home gallons for themselves and their friends.” In dealing with the decrease in eon- sumption, Miss Holloway statéd that the amount of ice .cream and candy used has been decreased. “People who have never let a Sunday or holiday pass,” she said, “without making ice cream a necessary part of the meal, could not locate the ice cream freezer today without the aig of a trained in- vestigater.” The reduction in the con- sumptioh of these things Miss Hollo- way believes means the removal of a definite food value. “The nutritive value of chocolate candy,” she contin- ued, “is demonstrated by the war. and that of the candy bought today has decreased by over 60 per cent. “Fruit, which has a medicinal as well as a food value, is not seen at all on the tables of the majority of the people. Sugar is a diminishing quan- tity, but can be so within certain lim- its as we have eaten too much of it in the past. What concerns me most is the wprohibitive price of the actual foundation of body and mind and the manner in which people try to retrench without regard to the values of the food they decrease.: “Meat. butter, cheese. eggs, potatoes, milk, are the principal articles cut down. “Comparison of the decrease in con- sumption in the northeast and the southern parts of the state shows that th eformer have an advantage as they have gardens to furn™® them with an abundance of food. Because of lack of space. at least this is one of the reasons, little is raised in the southern part of the state. Consequently they are more dependent on the staples, milk, butter and meat. “It is our legally authorized duty to look afted the workingman. That means his family as well as himself. The foreign born who constitute the larger part of our workers are the the larger part of our populatien. Many of these people conserve un- economically. And many of them could give the average American housekeeper lessons in conservatign.” SEND THREE COLORED DRAFTEES OFF TO CAMP Norwich's quota of three colored draftees left early Sunday morning for Camip Devens. Notwithstanding the early hour of departure many triends of the men were at the station to bid them farewell. The men reported on Saturday afternoon for their final in- structions and papers. The men were James E. Green, James E. Jones and o) - Tatbpeny Corporal Wileox in Listaning Post. Scotland road, has heen ént ing post in “No Man's Land" he writes to a friend in this city. Mr. Wilcox, who is in Co. C, 307th infantry, %h‘? fiemmma_dau he has ) is now a cor- He writes as follows, heading his lstter with the ecompany metto, Hoir g “Don’t W France, July 27, 1818. Mr. Stephen Coffey, Norwich, Conn.: It seems only a few weeks ago thal I left Norwich for Camp Devens, But since then I have had experiences and many but the one that still lingers in my mind is that good old tewn back in the hills of Connecticut, the Rcse of New England. Since eoming here to France we have seen quite a little of ihe country, traveled much and siept everywhere but in a bed. For the last two months we have been under shell fire most of the time. Some time ago we went up the line into the trenches and now I can really say that, while not all that one reads in the papers and magazines , is true, much of it is. We have towns anq villages that have hardl & whele haouse ieft in the whale place, tion | {ust a lot of broken and fallen walls. There at the trenches 'were ' many dugouts and deep trenches that it must have taken a long time to build, all blown to pieces. > The ground up there mear the line is all shot full of deep holes and many unexploded shells of all sizes and kinds lay there. While there we made several raids upen the German trenches and in one case we met one of their patrols near their lines. We gave them a warm reception, but their positions were all covered by their own machine guns, behind their own barb- ed wire, so we could not get at them. QOne cannot ‘imagine the amount of barbed wire there is here in France. In front of our lines the wire was fully. one hundred feet wide, and all entan- gled together, the whole length of the line. I shall never forget the first 48 hours I puf in out at the listening posts in No Man’s Land. It rained both nights and during the days both sides ehelled each other very sharply and all the shells passed over our heads from both batteries. We could hear the guns, then the scream of the shells, and then in a few seconds the repert of the bursting shell over back of the line. Many of the trees near the line are all battered to pieces and it is no un- common sight to see a tree two feet in diameter shot clean off at the butt. The day after we left the trenches ard came back to the rest camp we all felt a little safer until one of our anti-aircraft guns put a shell through the roof and three fioors of our bar= racks. and the shell failed to explode and dropped. It passeq through our rogms and left only a large hole in the floor and then we began to think it made little difference where we were. As we have to ecarry all our equipment in our pack 1 §ve thrown away every- thing that I possibly could get on without except my writing paper, some pictures from home and a sweater that the ladies at Norwich gave us. These I take wherever I go and like my re- volver they are never out of my 1each, as _this is a queer country. There are only two of us from Nor- wich left now in this company, but some of the other boys are in our bat- talion. John Brown and I have stuck together so far and have hopes we may return together. All our papers here tell of victory all along the line, but then there must be some failures, although they don't print it. The papers here are queer sheets and not much like the papers at h®me. Whenever I meet any of the Norwich boys they always dsk: “Have you heard anything from home late- ly?" Sunday was a biz day for some of us. as we found where we could buy .some real apple pie at the Salva- tion Armv rooms. The K. of C.,, Y. M. €. A. and Salvation Army rooms all are always crowded here when the boys are off duty. It seems good to come hack from the wild country and go in and hear a piano playing. We are all satisfied here but we are all over and all return home. Best wishes to all my friends. 2 F. B. WILCOX. Has Lost Ear and Beed Badly Cut Up, But Going Back After Huns. The following interesting letter has been received by Mrs. William H. Pot- tér of Orient, L. L, from her son Irwin, % grand-nephew of Capt. Charles T. Potter of this city, and it‘ plainly in- dicates what a plucky fighter he is: June 18, 1918, My Dear Mother: I am leaving the hospital tomorrow for duty again, and you can't realize how good I feel, or the condition that I was in. Did you receive the letter that those Smith college girls wrote you? I ex- pect they put most everything in it. Well, it's all over now and f am So- ing back, and, believe me, you can bet there’s going tc be a dead Hun some- where. I have some pictures taken and I will send them. Of cotrse, they look awful but you see I had them taken with a lot of cripples. 1 am going to wait till T arrive in the U. S. before I have a new ear grafted on.. It's my left one and I certainly loog funny, for I am nothing but a bunch of scars, one about five inches long on my left face and a big one that went througl'l my malor bone on cheek bone. Theres one across Ty chest about eight and one-half inches and one on my back. Everybody seems to think I was fucky. I dom’t call it luck, but feel that it was the Lord who saved me. I just heard about Burt, a fellow that's in his company is in the hospital and he said he was all right; that was the last of May. I hope he don’t ever suffer the way I have for the last two months. My arms are so stiff that I can’t raise them only about five inch- es. But they'll limbbr up later. How are all the folks? Give my. love to all and, mother, dear, take good care of yourself and see that father don't work too hard, for we may be home soon. One can unever tell. There's one thing sure, our boys are certainly proving what the United States can do. We have plenty to. eat and clothing, and what more could a person want these times? I must close. From now on I'll be able to write once a week, so you will get a letter regu- lar. Write often. Pray for us all. Love and- kisses. Your son, IRWIN. P. S.—I have six pieces of shell they took out of me and I am going to see it they will let me send them to you. Burt referred to in the letter was a brother of the writer whose death has since ‘been reported, Danbury Printer Visits Here. Norwich friends of William Curran, formerly linotype operator with The Bulletin, and now with the Danbury News, were pleased on Saturday to with his son William on a short va- cation trip, which will extend over Labor Day. Mr, Curran and his son were guests of friends at Pleasant View over Saturday night. Danbury, he says, is one of the Connecticut cities which is not experiencing the kum of activity that is coming to DIED, ~ MOWRY—In Norwich, Sept. 2, 1918, g:rrnuns A. Mowry, wife of the late 3 W. Mowry. Notice of funeral hereafter. It seems they shot at a plane| waiting for the day to come when it's; greet him as he was visiting the city" CUMMINGS & RING Funeral Directors and Embalmers 322 Main Street Chamber of Commerce Building Phone 238-2 Lady Assistant many placeg in the state because of the war time conditions in manufac- tures. In fact things have gone the other way with Danbury as scores-of families have moved away to get wark in munitions and other factories around the state, leaving many houses and temements to rent in the city., He has resided there for the past years, LEDYARD OBJECTORS MUST DO FARM WORK Everett and Clinton Watrous, the Ledyard Quakers who were sent to Camp Devens at Ayer, Mass, because they Trebelled against enzaging in combatant warfare because of relig- icus seruples, have been sent to New Englangd farms to work during the continuance of the war. Other cbjec- tors have been sent from Ayer to Lea- venworth prison. WILLIAM C. NOYES IS Y. M. C. A. BOYS' SECRETARY William C. Noves, a lcecal young man, has been selected to succeed Boys’ Secretary J. Harold Ely of the Norwich ¥, M. & A, who resizned re- cently to enter Red Triangle work in France. Mr. Noyes begins his duties today arnd will at once begin to make plans for work among the ycunger ele- ment of the association. New Principal at Palmertown. The Montville schools will open en Wednesday, Sept. 4 Miss Margaret Byrne will be the new principal at Palmertown, while Miss Hooper will eontinue to act at Uncsaville, Chil- dren from the Collins school will be transported to the Palmer Memortal by a truck which will leave the Collins school at 8.13 each morning. A new room is being opened at the Palmer Memarial school. Auto Ditched Near Willow Point. Autoists returning from Groton Loug Point late Safurday evening re- ported an antomobile ditched near Wil low Point, West Mystic, The ditched car was considerably damaged, the two front wheels being smashed and the raaxiator gone. For Trouble at Home. John O'Brien and Alexander Notoro- wich, two Norwich citizens, were ar- rested on Saturday night on complaint of making trouble at their respective homes, ang will face charges of breach of the peace in the police court. ROCKEFELLER USED HORSES FOR THEIR SUNDAY RIDES New York, Sept. 1.—John D. Rocke- feller, greatest producer of gasoline in the world, rade 1o church at Tar- rytown today behing 2 pair of hors Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rod! also used horses for ride. PRIESTS MURDERED BY ° RUSSIAN RED GUARDS Amsterdam, Sept. 1.—The archbishop and other leading orthodox priests at Riga, a Russian seaport on the Baltic, have been murdered by Russian Red guards, according to a despatch from Riga to the Tageblatt of Berlin, 'SPAIN HAS SEIZED AN INTERNED GERMAN SHIP London, Sept. 2—The Spanish gov- | ernment, after a cabinet meeting Sat- urday night, seized one of the interned German steamers, according to a Madrid despatch to the Daily Mail This action wa staken because of the torpedoing of the Ataz Mendl CLERGYMAN TO RESHIP AS AN ARDINARY SAILOR Washinston, Sept. 1.—The Rev. Na- thaniel H. Melbert of Houston, once a sailor, has quit his pulpit to go to sea again. He is now with a train- ing ship at Boston and after six weeks’ training will ship as an ordinary sail- or. . NORWEGIAN STEAMER TORPEDOED AND SUNK Stockholm, Sept. 1.—The Norwegian steamer Borgsdal has been torpedoed and sunk. 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